Elizabeth warren, Bernie Sanders literally taking center stage. The podium position. Joe biden sandwiched smack dab between senators warren and sanders. Never before have all three been together for a debate. And heres some numbers. A new cnn poll shows why the former Vice President continues to get a star spot. Because once again he is the top choice for potential democratic voters with warren and sanders vying for second place. We start with jessica dean our correspondent there in houston covering this big debate. Expectations. What should people be looking for . Reporter right. Good afternoon to you, brooke. Right. As you mentioned well see sanders, warren and biden on the same stage first time. So people will watch for the dynamics between the three of them specifically biden and warren have never been on the same stage together and an adviser from the Biden Campaign telegraphing potential attack lines saying that the former Vice President is going to make the case that America Nee
Which foreign leaders do we know the president met with and talked to on the telephone around this time . Thats the big question. Because it centers around the communication by the president with a foreign leader and the alleged promise that he made to this foreign leader. In looking at the timeline, the complaint was filed august 12th. If we look at the weeks prior to that, he had communications with a number of world leaders, including the russian president , Vladimir Putin. That was a phone call, the north korean dictator in the form of letters, the emir and the president of ukraine, the Prime Minister of israel. We dont know, as jim mentioned, which foreign leader is in the complaint, what promise was made. But it was something so disturbing to this intelligence official who the Washington Post said was tea taildetailed that person felt it necessary to take it to the Inspector General. The Inspector General felt it was urgent concern that he then took it to the congressional oversi
This is cnn tonight, i am don lemon. A lot is going on. I am going to catch you up on all the headlines. Confusion in the Trump Administration as iran takes revenge for killing a top general. An embarrassing incident a letter suggesting the u. S. Withdrawal troop from iraq is the result of the deadly air strikes a release of, quote, mistake thats not happening. As we wait for the start of the impeachment trial in the senate, former National Security advisor john bolton says hes ready to testify if hes subpoenaed, if the call is perfect and the president did nothing wrong, why dont more Senate Republicans want to testify for him . President trump of an interview added to the long list of lies and misfalsehoods. Well factcheck what he says. The president is slamming the squad and his top officials claimed that they took out Qassem Soleimani because he was planning imminent attack on americans. Mike pompeo dodging when asked to give details. We saw he was plotting further plans to take do
New push to check the president. How mistakes in iraq may be repeating themselves all over again. Weapons of mass destruction have been found in iraq. All in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. If you are feeling dread and anxiety in this new year, you are not crazy. We are on the precipice of what many imagined as a worst Case Scenario of donald trump as president of the United States. The moment that he came down the escalator to announce his candidacy, people across the political and ideological spectrum from marco rubio to Lindsey Graham to Bernie Sanders to rick perry to ted vote your conscience cruz, they all have assessed trumps character as completely unfit to wield the power that he wields as president of the United States. For all of trumps narcissism and pettiness and bragging and ignorance, thus far through sheer luck we have avoided that absolute worst Case Scenario, the president essentially plunging the country into a new military conflagration
Cooperate with the United Nations watchdog. President trump is said attacki cultural sites could be considered a war crime. Calling on u. S. And other Foreign Forces to leave the country. President trump threatening sanctions against iraq if troops are forced to withdraw. He also insists that troops wouldnt leave unless baghdad reimburses washington for an airbase that in fact iraq built. Interesting tidbit there. For more, we are joined from baghdad yet again. Another situation that puts iraq in a difficult place and it seems donald trump is continuing to play hardball. Well, thats definitely iraq is stuck in the middle here between its two allies, iran and the United States. And as these tensions were growing between those two countries over the past few months, iraq has been very concerned that these tensions are going to be playing out here in iraq. That is exactly what they have been seeing happen. We heard this yesterday at p parliament where he explained how we got to this point